Chinese Character Wiki
紅

hóng

red

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 工 represents the sound.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

工 sound component

工  Sound component

gōng

  

work

Evolution

紅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
紅 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
紅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

红 (紅) 

hóng

red, vermillion; blush, flush; red; popular; revolutionary; bonus

红 (紅) 

Hóng

surname Hong

Most common words with 紅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

红

red

红色

red (color)

红包

kickback

粉红

pink

红灯

red light

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*gˤoŋ

huwng

hóng

pink


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 48.2941% of movies

790th most common character in movies

502nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Simplified

红

Unicode

U+7D05

Shuowen

“紅，帛赤白色。从糸，工聲。”


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